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Just saw the aforemention movie had seen it in the past. At the end Michael Douglas wisks away Kathleen Turner on a beautiful yacht with sails flying on a trailer down 5th ave, NYC. It's a beautiful boat, looks like a brand new Bristol (Ted Hood). Any know what the boat make actually was?  

As per Wiki answers it is a Mason 43  

Just had this Conversation the other Day at the Club Jack's boat is named Angelina and is a 43 foot Mason I understand  

Hermit Scott

what about the sailboat in lost, Elizabeth? It's a center cockpit.  

Was Columbia Still Making Boats Then? I forget when the movie was out early to mid 80s?  

The boat in Lost is Nautor's Swan 57 CC (for Central Cockpit), 57'/17.50m. Current price is generally $500,000 - $700,000 for 1995/98 modelst's a Nautor's Swan 57 CC (for Central Cockpit), 57'/17.50m. Current price is generally $500,000 - $700,000 for 1995/98 models  

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Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

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‘Romancing the Stone’ at 35: How Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner Survived Gators, Rain, and Studio Expectations

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“ Romancing the Stone ” looks like a fun adventure romp onscreen, but making the Michael Douglas – Kathleen Turner movie that turns 35 this week was no stroll through the jungle. There were alligators, mud and plenty of back-and-forth with the studio — not to mention a tragedy after it opened.

The romantic comedy adventure opened March 30, 1984 and ended up as the eighth-highest grossing film of the year. It won the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical, and Turner took home the Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical.

Following in the footsteps of blockbuster “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Romancing the Stone” was a real game changer career-wise for star-producer Douglas, who became an even more popular leading man; Turner, who proved she was more than a femme fatale; and Douglas’ friend Danny DeVito, who became a bankable actor and director.

Director Robert Zemeckis went on to become one of Hollywood’s major filmmakers, earning an Oscar for 1994’s “Forrest Gump”; DP Dean Cundey worked on several more films with Zemeckis, receiving an Oscar nomination for 1988’s “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”; and composer Alan Silvestri still collaborates with Zemeckis.

But “Romancing the Stone” was also a bear to make on location in the jungles around Veracruz and Hidalgo in Mexico where the production was beset with rain, mud and creepy crawlies. And of course, all of the stunts and action sequences were done live.

“It was very, very tough,” said Zemeckis. “When the movie was over, I said to my agent who gave me the script, who is now my partner — Jack Rapke — if another script ever comes across your desk that has a slug line in it that says ‘Exterior. Jungle. Night. Rain.’ Never send it to me.”

“We had all kinds of things with the rain,” noted Cundey. “I remember one incident we were on the dirt road, just above the mud slide sequence where Kathleen and Michael go down the slide. We were sitting down preparing for something and there was a little rumble behind us. We looked across the road and the cliff had slid down and covered half the road. Had somebody been standing there, they’d have been covered with mud, or injured.”

Speaking of injuries, that mud slide gave Turner an abrasion worth several stitches. And when Douglas grabbed the tail of an alligator who had eaten the titular stone, the reptile gave him two powerful whacks in the face.

Douglas recalled that the gator, whose jaw was wired shut by trainers, dove into the bay after attacking him.

“We were looking for him,” said Douglas. “Finally, we heard some people yelling a little further down. It was a night sequence and we moved the lights over to where it was. What we didn’t know was the wire had gotten loose and gotten off.”

The two trainers took a boat over to where the gator was and got into the water. “The worst thing happened,” said Douglas. “The alligator took the guy’s hand and spun and took him down and under.”

The other trainer, who was also the man’s brother, went down and wedged the gator’s mouth open to rescue his brother.

“We got him to the hospital in time. His hand was pretty mauled, and he lost a lot of blood. I went to see him. He wanted to whisper something to me, and I leaned over, and he said, ‘My Rolex.’ It turned out he saved losing his hand because the alligator bit down on his watch. We went back to the location, dove in the water and we found this Rolex watch.”

Was it still working?

“I don’t know,” replied Douglas. “It would have been a good commercial.’’

With “Romancing the Stone,” the late screenwriter Diane Thomas created memorable characters and a clever premise: plain jane Joan Wilder (Turner), who writes steamy romance novels featuring a feisty heroine and a handsome adventurer, finds herself in the jungles of Colombia when she gets a frantic call from her sister who has been kidnapped by antiquities smugglers. Joan, of course, is like a fish out of water in the jungles until she’s saved by hunky exotic bird smuggler Jack Colton (Douglas).

There, the two get into more dangerous escapades than in any of her novels.

Douglas loved the script from Thomas, who had been working as a waitress, and was willing to pay. “I remember being criticized for paying so much money for a first-time screenwriter,” he noted. “I said, ‘Well, I don’t care if it was the first time or the tenth time, if the material is good, then the material finds its own value.‘”

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When it came to writing the 1985 sequel, “The Jewel of the Nile,” Thomas was busy working on various projects. Still, said Douglas, “she came in and did a little doctoring, a little work for me on the sequel script.”

But what could have been a promising career in screenwriting was cut short.

Thomas, Douglas said, had always wanted a Porsche.

“So, the last time I saw Diane was when I went out to the parking lot and showed her the Porsche that I got her,” he explained. “About only about two months later, she got killed in the car.”

Her boyfriend had been driving when the Porsche struck a telephone poll. Thomas was only 29 when she died.

Though Douglas had won the Oscar for producing the 1975 best picture winner “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and had produced and appeared in such films as 1979’s “The China Syndrome,” he was thought of more as a television actor due to his starring role in the 1970s detective series, “The Streets of San Francisco.”

“In those days, there was a tremendous amount of separation between television acting and film acting. I wanted to try to get the part, it was very difficult,” Douglas said.

Box office names Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds were bandied about to play Jack. Eventually, Douglas was able to hire himself.

As for director, Zemeckis had caught Douglas’ attention with his second film, 1980’s “Used Cars,” which received strong reviews despite underperforming at the box office.

“Michael came to me,” said Zemeckis. “Michael was always a champion of mine. He really kept saying to the studio, ‘I really want the energy that’s in “Used Cards” to be in this movie.’ There was a sort of feeling of we were all on a mission.”

“There was an innocence about the production with all of us,” said Douglas. “It was a kind of location that no studio wanted to come down and visit. We were on our own.”

The studio’s top choice to play Joan was Debra Winger. “She was doing ‘Terms of Endearment’ in Texas and we did stop to see her,” said Douglas. “We couldn’t get a direct answer whether she was committed or not and we had concerns after being down [to Mexico} with Bob on locations and seeing how difficult it was going to be. We were going to need somebody to be a total team player. “

And that was Turner.

“’Romancing the Stone’ was thrilling,” she said. In fact, it was just the project she needed. After a star-making debut as a sexy femme fatale in the 1981 noir “Body Heat,” Turner “had to fight right away to get out of that rut” of being typecast. Her role in Steve Martin’s 1983 comedy “The Man with Two Brains” helped turn her image towards comedy.

“And then when we came to ‘Romancing,’ it’s like, ‘Yeah, okay, she’s sexy and she’s funny but can she be insecure and demure?’ So, then you go in with cut-offs, baggy clothes and no makeup and prove to them that you can be. But it takes so much to convince them.”

She described making the movie as “really fun. It was really a boy’s club, but they let me in because I’m a tomboy.”

That willingness to get muddy came in handy when Turner had to do a scene that involved walking through a marshy area filled with gators. “The trainer, the one who later almost lost his hand, said when they are really [sleeping], they are not so dangerous. But when they start to open their mouth, that’s their power. So, when they start to open their mouth, you step on their head. I said, ‘Like that’s going to happen.’ And they end up cutting the whole damn scene after I did it.”

“As the producer of this show, I was so appreciative of Kathleen,” said Douglas. ”She was just great in it. The situations that we put her in — I just could not imagine any other actress doing that. I was totally enthralled with her.”

And after making “Jewel in the Nile” and DeVito’s dark 1989 comedy “War of the Roses,” Douglas and Turner are reuniting for an episode of “The Kominsky Method,” Netflix’s award-winning comedy series starring Douglas and Alan Arkin. Turner will play one of Douglas’ ex-wives, who is a physician with Doctors Without Borders.

“It was just great,” Douglas said, of shooting the Season 2 episode. “She’s got that wonderful, great voice and acerbic style. It’s not the tone of ‘Romancing.’ It’s more the tone of ‘War of the Roses.’”

It’s no secret that the “studio was very negative” when executives saw the first cut of the film, Douglas said. Zemeckis added, “It wasn’t really like we had a big screening or anything. It was just the main creative executive. We were just kind of looking at it and realized we needed to shore up a lot of Kathleen’s [storyline] — all that stuff at the beginning where she’s generally in her apartment writing by herself. We went back and shot that stuff and it helped her character a lot.”

Still, Zemeckis was fired from his next project for the studio, 1985’s “Cocoon,” before “Romancing” was released. “Cocoon” was given to Ron Howard to direct.

“What happened was for some reason, the guy who was the head of physical production at Fox at the time, he had it out for our movie,” said Zemeckis. “While we were down in Mexico shooting, we found out later he was spewing all this vitriol about how we’re out of control and this director doesn’t know what he’s doing.”

The “Cocoon” producers, Zemeckis said, were “hearing all of this stuff constantly coming out of Mexico. They got nervous, so they fired me. After they saw the movie, they wanted to hire me back on ‘Cocoon.’ I just sort of kind of politely declined after that.”

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1984 Soundtrack – Romancing The Stone

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1  Logo (Alan Silvestri) 00:28 2  How The West Was Won (Alfred Newman; Ken Darby) 01:41 3  Main Title (Alan Silvestri) 02:34 4  Elaine (Alan Silvestri) 02:14 5  I’m In Trouble (Alan Silvestri) 01:48 6  Bus Ride (Alan Silvestri) 00:44 7  Jack And Joan (Alan Silvestri) 01:06 8  The Gorge (Alan Silvestri) 04:54 9  The Body (Alan Silvestri) 00:49 10  Ransacked Apartment / Zolo (Alan Silvestri) 02:03 11  Bronco Chase (Alan Silvestri) 02:18 12  The Ride (Alan Silvestri) 02:04 13  Senile Samba (Alan Silvestri) 02:29 14  The Dance / They Kiss (Alan Silvestri) 04:55 15  Hotel Escape (Alan Silvestri) 02:01 16  The Stone Revealed (Alan Silvestri) 01:19 17  Mounties! (Alan Silvestri) 02:20 18  The Square (Alan Silvestri) 01:47 19  Over Here / You And Your Sister * (Alan Silvestri) 01:16 20  Tregula (Alan Silvestri) 01:32 21  Struggling For The Stone (Alan Silvestri) 06:03 22  So Long Jack (Alan Silvestri) 01:10 23  The Sailboat (Alan Silvestri) 01:22 24  End Titles (Alan Silvestri) 06:00 25  Piano Bar (Source) (Alan Silvestri) 04:55 26  The Dance (Discrete Cue) (Alan Silvestri) 03:39 27  They Kiss (Discrete Cue) (Alan Silvestri) 02:57 28  End Titles (Alternate) (Alan Silvestri) 05:59

Bass – Arni Egilsson, Milton Kestenbaum, Neil Stubenhaus , Peter Mercurio, Ray Siegel, Richard Feves, Robert Stone, Scott Harper Cello – Armen Ksajikian, Barbara Hunter, Christina Soule, Earl Madison, Eleanor Slatkin, Frederick Seykora, Miguel Martinez, Nancy Stein, Nils Oliver, Raphael Kramer, Raymond Kelly, Rebecca Reese Harp – Ann Stockton, Dorothy Remsen Viola – Alan DeVeritch, Allan Harshman, David Schwartz, Janet Lakatos, Kenneth Burward-Hoy, Myer Bello, Myra Kestenbaum, Pamela Goldsmith, Virginia Majewski Violin – Alfred Breuning, Anatol Kaminsky, Assa Drori, Bernard Kundell, Bonnie Douglas, Dan Turner, Daniel Shindaryov, David Frisina, Debbie Grossman, Dixie Blackstone, Donald Palmer, Dorothy Wade, Haim Shtrum, Harold Wolf, Harris Goldman, Herman Clebanoff, Irma Neumann, Israel Baker, Jack Pepper, Joseph Shoenbrun, Karen Jones, Marshall Sosson, Nathan Kaproff, Oscar Chausow, Patricia Aiken, Paul Shure, Peter Kent, Stuart Canin, Wilbert Nuttycomb

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Producer – Michael Matessino, Nick Redman Producer (Assistant) – Frank K. DeWald Producer (Executive) – MV Gerhard, Matt Verboys Conductor – Alan Silvestri Contractor – Meyer Mike Rubin Edited By – Neil S. Bulk Editor – Tom Carlin Editor (Assistant) – Kathleen Bennett Engineer (Recording) – Ben Rogers Mastered By – Dan Hersch Mixed By – Mike Matessino, Dennis Sands Orchestrated By – James Campbell

Art Direction – Jim Titus Artwork – John Solie

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On March 30, 1984, 20th Century-Fox unveiled Robert Zemeckis’ adventure film Romancing the Stone in theaters. The film, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, went on to gross $75 million-plus during its theatrical run. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:

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You can tell you’re in for a good time when, as the credits are still being unfurled, we watch what appears to be a parody of a western movie. We soon discover that these are the final pages of a new romantic novel written by our heroine, an eminently successful pulp authoress (Kathleen Turner). We also learn that the lady’s love life has been confined to the printed page, her lusty heroines being merely projections of her own dreams and longings. But having established this immediately, screenwriter Diane Thomas plunges her into an adventure of her own. Her sister has been kidnapped and is being held in Cartagena; the ransom is the treasure map which Turner must bring at once to Colombia — or else. … Even before she leaves her New York apartment, it’s evident that there are other ruthless killers after the same map.

Director Robert Zemeckis ( Used Cars ) not only has a total affinity for this sort of nonsense, but delights in adding to it. Romancing the Stone is Zemeckis’ first crack at the big time, but it certainly won’t be his last.

Topping the cast, Michael Douglas works with a comic bravado that reveals a range well beyond the intense roles we have come to expect from him and Danny DeVito, as the hood from Brooklyn, is given his first chance on the big screen to deliver in depth his special blend of swagger and frustration. But the real revelation is Kathleen Turner, the sultry, duplicitous siren of Body Heat and Steve Martin’s hilariously sexy wife in The Man With Two Brains . Here she changes from a timid, reclusive New York career woman into a daring, resourceful and dauntlessly independent spirit.

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• 1 What is the sailboat at the end of Romancing The Stone?
• 2 Who was the woman in opening scene of Romancing The Stone?
• 3 Who plays Gloria in Romancing the Stone?
• 4 Are Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito friends?
• 5 Was Romancing The Stone filmed in Colombia?
• 6 Who is the author of Romancing the stone?
• 7 Why was Juan so suspicious in Romancing the stone?

The name of the boat that Joan and Jack are to sail off in at the end of the movie was called “Angelina” of the port of Colombia.

Who was the woman in opening scene of Romancing The Stone?

the film’s funny opening prologue – a Western storybook tale featuring sexy blonde Angelina (Kymberly Herrin, Playboy Playmate March 1981), who was being assaulted by evil villain Grogan (Ted White) who threatened her life and demanded sex: (“So, you can die two ways, Angel: quick like the tongue of a snake, or slower …

Was a real snake killed in Romancing The Stone?

The next day is the stone part. The snake we see in the movie is called a Bushmaster, but it’s not. They might have even used a dead snake after he kills it. They also used a real snake when we see it crawl up into the air behind Joan’s head.

Where was the opening scene of Romancing The Stone filmed?

The scene where Turner and Douglas get separated on opposite banks on a whitewater river, about two-thirds into the movie, was filmed on the Rio Antigua near the town of Jalcomulco, Veracruz. Turner later said of the film’s production, “I remember terrible arguments [with Robert Zemeckis] doing Romancing.

Who plays Gloria in Romancing the Stone?

Holland Taylor Romancing the Stone (1984) – Holland Taylor as Gloria – IMDb.

Are Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito friends?

Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito have been friends since they were up-and-coming actors in New York in the 1960s. They have worked together for decades on such popular films as War of the Roses, Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile.

Where did they film Jewel of the Nile?

Location shooting took place at Villefranche-sur-Mer and the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France, Ait Benhaddou near Ouarzazate and Meknes, Morocco, among other locations, including Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah.

Where was the waterfall in Romancing The Stone?

The Cascada de Texolo waterfall cutting through the jungle in Xico, Veracruz, Mexico. The 80-foot high waterfall was used in the movie Romancing the Stone.

Was Romancing The Stone filmed in Colombia?

Although the majority of Romancing The Stone was filmed on location in Mexico (Colombia in the mid 1980’s was not necessarily the best location to film a big budget Hollywood production), I still wanted to go to Colombia.

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